Sacred Places

The body or relics of a saint could attract divine protection on the community and the place where they were kept. If, in some cases, the monasteries were structures of assistance to sanctuaries of certain notoriety, starting from the 7th century, they increasingly played the role of protagonists, autonomously managing the devotional activities derived from the acquisition or translation of relics. The need to preserve the isolation of the 'clausura' and to manage, at the same time, an increasing flow of pilgrims led these monasteries to build new spaces for prayer, communion and assistance.

This book includes the Proceedings of the International Conference held in Naples (Italy) on November 28-29, 2022. The Conference - organized, as part of a Marie-Curie research project, by the Fondazione San Bonaventura with the contribution of the Italian Ministry of Culture - brought together historians, archaeologists, and art historians to discuss the theme of spatial articulation of monasteries chosen as places of pilgrimage during the Early Middle Ages in Western Europe. From this interdisciplinary discussion, exciting insights have emerged on aspects of particular relevance, such as the organization of the funerary space and interaction between monks and laypeople, the elements of balance or clash between 'clausura' and hospitality and the comparison between male and female monasteries as devotional centers.

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An Opportunity for Discussion on Accessibility to Devotional Spaces in Early Medieval Monasteries

Daniele Ferraiuolo, Introduction

Enrico Cirelli, L’‘invenzione’ delle reliquie di sant’Apollinare e san Severo a Classe. Organizzazione dello spazio monastico in relazione alla presenza di reliquie e pellegrini nella Ravenna altomedievale

Maria Rosaria Marchionibus, I parekklesia di Santa Maria de Pactano e di Santa Maria della Sperlonga. Reliquie e guarigioni miracolose

Carlo Ebanista, Venerazione delle reliquie e spazio funerario a Napoli nell’alto medioevo: il caso del monastero di S. Gennaro fuori le mura

Anne Baud, Anne Flammin, Tombe sainte et fondation de l’abbaye des moniales de Saint-André- le-Haut à Vienne dans le Dauphiné (France)

Philippe Mignot, From Relics to the Cult of the Saint. The Case of Nivelles (7^th to ıo^th century)

Sébastien Bully, Espaces dévotionnels et funéraires dans l’abbaye de Luxeuil du haut Moyen Âge

Artemio Manuel Martínez Tejera, The Relics of Saints and their Role in the First Early Medieval Hispanic Monasteries of the Kingdom of Leon (ıo^th century)

Jordina Sales-Carbonell, Marta Sancho I Planas, Monasticismo femenino en la Hispania tardoantigua. ¿Quién, dónde, cómo?

Ilenia Gentile, Simone Schiavone, Monasteri e strutture d’accoglienza nella Francia merovingia. Il ruolo delle donne alla luce delle fonti agiografiche

Anne-Marie Helvétius, Pratiques dévotionnelles ‘déviantes’ dans des monastères d’hommes et de femmes en Gaule mérovingienne

Christian Sapin, Saint-Germain d’Auxerre, pratiques dévotionnelles et pèlerinages (ve- xie siècle)

Eleonora Destefanis, La venerazione di santi e reliquie nei monasteri altomedievali dell’Italia settentrionale. Dispositivi liturgici e organizzazione degli spazi cultuali

The Monastic Space in the Capital of the Lombard Kingdom

Luigi Carlo Schiavi, The First Centuries of the Monasterium Reginae in Pavia

Thomas Kind, A Carolingian Monastery, Fulda. Its Beginnings, Buildings and its Monastic Economy

Adrien Bayard, Les monastères entre pratiques dévotionnelles et organisation spatiale en Flandre méridionale (VIIe-Xe siècle)

Daniele Ferraiuolo, Reserved Areas and Reception of Guests in Royal Monasteries (7^th-ıo^th Centuries)

Federico Marazzi, Conclusioni